Bookm. 47 ('18): 266. (Phelps.)
Lond. Times, Nov. 17, 1921: 746.
New Statesman, 18 ('21): 114.
Outlook, 122 ('19): 644 (portrait).
Poetry, 4 ('14): 203; 11 ('17): 157; 14 ('19): 159; 17 ('21): 212.
Sat. Rev. 132 ('21): 737.
+Carl Van Doren+--critic.
Born at Hope, Illinois, 1885. A.B., University of Illinois, 1907; Ph.D.,
Columbia, 1911. Taught English at the University of Illinois, 1907-16;
assistant professor, 1914-6. Associate in English at Columbia since 1916.
Headmaster of The Brearley School, New York, 1916-9. Literary editor of
_The Nation_, 1919--. Co-editor of the _Cambridge History of American
Literature_. His most important books are _The American Novel_, 1921;
_Contemporary American Novelists_, 1922.